FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND FOOD SECURITY IN HUNGARY: CONCEPTS AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND FOOD SECURITY IN HUNGARY: CONCEPTS AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK

Summary/Abstract: Within the European Union, the institutions have recently started to refer to concepts such as food security or the right to food, concepts which we have formerly not seen in documents of similar level related to land governance in the European Union. The significance of this phenomenon goes way beyond land law, with its origin in the FAO-inspired “Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT)” of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) of 12 May 2012. Since several issues arise as to implementation on the ground this policy initiative, the following study searches for answers as to the relationship between the newly promulgated theoretical concepts and their appearance in the Hungarian national law and legal practice. This study examines how the concepts of food sovereignty and food security are transposed/interpreted in the Hungarian national law (both legislation and implementation), and the extent to which the right to food finds effect in the legal system of Hungary. The study also focuses on the implementation of certain dispositions of the VGGT in the Hungarian national law.

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